Chapter By Chapter: The Merry Adv Of Robin Hood part second ch. 3

Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.

Remember, the book is in public domain. Download or read the ebook online legally and for free at Project Gutenberg, Google Books or the Internet Archive among other sites, or check out the audiobook from LibriVox. You can also use a print copy. In either case my copy may not match up with yours chapter-wise. Follow along with the very-long subtitle. For this chapter:

Part Second

Recounting Three Merry Adventures That Befell Robin Hood and Certain Others, by Which He Gained Sore Bones and Three Good Merry Men All In One Day

It’s time for the last of our second trio of stories. Thus far in this set we’ve seen the recruiting of Arthur A Bland and Will Scarlett, the latter responsible for the sore bones of Robin while the former gave a good beating to Little John. Now everyone decided to forget about having new clothes and run off into the forest. I swear there’s a slashfic in there somewhere but…who am I kidding, I’m sure it already exists. I tend to avoid such things but I know the internet. Anyway, in this story we have one more recruit to gain. Will anyone else get a-whoppin’ before we’re done?

Chapter III: Midge, The Miller’s Son

I thought Midge was a girl’s name? Then again I only saw it in that one Nightwing story and I think a recurring Archie character so what do I know?

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Superman Adventures #65

Does Spider-Boy know you stole his web-shooters?

Superman Adventures #65

DC Comics (March, 2002)

“Power Play” part 1

WRITERS: Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer

PENCILER: Aluir Amancio

INKER: Terry Austin

COLORIST: Marie Severin

SEPARATOR: Zylonol

LETTERER: Phil Felix

EDITOR: Joe Cavalieri

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BW’s Morning Video: Batman Day

Don’t get me wrong. It’s totally cool that Batman got to have his own day during his 80th anniversary celebration, but why wasn’t there a Superman Day? Are we getting a Wonder Woman Day at least? That said, the fact that Batman is so important to so many shows the importance of superheroes. Look at all those kids so happy to meet Batman and Robin (which looked like the Tim Drake version so that makes this whole “Drake” nonsense even dumber). Kids love superheroes. Why aren’t kids given their own stories with these characters beyond some lame graphic novel that comes out once in a blue moon? Oh right, because we need to convince people like Bill Maher that superheroes aren’t just kids stuff. How’s that been working? You also need to do Batman right or else he may not be as popular by his next milestone. I don’t see signs of that happening either.

Jake & Leon #425: Birdbrain Naming

Jason had to steal his name from the Joker. At least Stephanie had an identity to fall back on.

Yes, Red Robin was a dumb name, especially if you live in an area where the restaurant exists. However, I thought you were supposed to come up with a BETTER name, not a worse one. Not if you’re Brian Michael Bendis apparently. First Superman, now Young Justice, what will he ruin next?

In this week’s Clutter Report the Transformers Universe reviews continue, this time it’s the first versus review as I compare Beast Machines Snarl to his Universe repaint. Same character, same mold. And this one isn’t without a casualty.

I already have a another video from Cartoon Cypher ready to post for Tuesday thanks to a goof on my part, as I forgot which video I teased the week before and had already written the article up before I realized my error. We’ll also close out the G1 Transformers intro reviews from Japan-exclusive casts before finally moving on to Beast Wars. And it’s time for the third story of Robin Hood’s recruitment drive in this week’s Chapter By Chapter. I just have to figure out what to do with the other two days. Enjoy the week, folks!

Saturday Night Showcase: Transformers (Armada) Video Game

Tonight’s Saturday Night Showcase is a bit of an experiment. As the odds improve that I may finally be able to do that let’s play/playthrough/whatever game play series I’ve been wanting to do for years I want to see what would work for the BW audience specifically. Additionally we have one more Transformers Armada continuity to go over and tonight seems like a decent time for it.

In 2004 the then-current incarnation of Atari (a long history and at this point it’s really just a name, not the Atari that kicked home consoles into high gear) licensed a rarity among Transformers video games: a good one. Well, rarity at the time. The stuff put out in recent years not tied to the movies have been pretty good, and War For Cybertron won the fourth slot of the let’s play series. The game, simply titled Transformers, was only released on the Playstation 2 so I have never played it and probably never will. Below you’ll see three videos (unless your on the home page, in which case it’s after the “read more” tag). They’re all the same game but different experiences. The first one is one video but the other two are playlists of videos by the same player that you can watch in one sitting or click to go to the playlist (the first one just goes to the YouTube channel but the longer playthrough names will go to the playlist) and watch as many in a row as you want.

The first is a straight-up movie edited from the gameplay of RandomBlackGamer. It’s the shortest experience but there isn’t a lot of story to this game and you’ll miss a lot of the play. The second is a let’s play hosted and played by Sooo Mungry and is actually a playlist of videos. It is a longer experience but he said right at the outset that he wasn’t going after every Mini-Con. That’s why my experience of choice was the longest playlist. I wanted to see all the different Mini-Cons, although some are just recolors. Each color is its own team, and offers bonus abilities. There’s no host for this one, just the straight playthrough by Forever On The Road Of Playing. This player is hunting every Mini-Con and every unlockable “data-con” that just unlocks bonuses in the galleries. At the end I’ll put a poll so let me know which experience you went with. It will help me decide how to go with my own gameplay series.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Army Of Dr. Moreau #1

“That tree could use some eyedrops.”

The Army Of Dr. Moreau #1

Monkeybrain Comics (2013–posted to comiXology on October 23rd)

WRITER: David F. Walker

ARTIST: Carl Sciacchitano

COLORIST: Sara Machajewski

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The Many MANY Intros Of Transformers: G1 Japan part 1

The Transformers as a series concept comes from Hasbro and Marvel comic creators in a joint venture that worked with the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero line. However the toys come from Japan, primarily licensed from various Takara lines. You can find that info rather easily but someone there liked the concept enough that they re-release those toys themselves as Transformers, or rather “Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers” because Japan like to make sentence length titles for stuff whenever possible. This also included bringing in the shows, already produced by Toei for Marvel Productions and Sunbow, to their TV screens. They aired all of our shows and when for whatever reason Hasbro opted to end the series Takara made their own shows, taking the Transformers concept in their own direction. I’ll get more into that in part 2.

For this part I’m focusing on the intros for the shows brought over from the US as well as two shows featuring the classic G1 characters in their designs. This will also give you a taste of the altered concepts since two of those shows are Japan original but feature the Autobots and Decepticons we all know and love. Except over there they changed the faction names to “Cybertron” and “Destron” respectively for some reason. The planet was thus named “Seibertron” (although some Japanese sources still call it Cybertron so who knows?) and all the Autobot and Decepticon related spin-off factions, as in Maximals, Predacons, and I believe the Vehicons used those names. I’m going to try to unconfuse that as much as I can but we’re only worried about Japan’s take on Autobots and Decepticons right now. This first set of intros focuses on the characters most of my readers know best, like Convoy, Rodimus Convoy, and Megatron. Look, I’m sticking with US names describing these shows just to avoid any more confusion than we’re already getting. Let’s just start the first intro.

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